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In a rapid warming scenario: 1. a stronger-than-expected El Niño would contribute to 2. early demise of the Arctic sea ice, i.e. latent heat tipping point + 3. associated loss of sea ice albedo, 4. destabilization of seafloor methane hydrates, causing eruption of vast amounts of methane that further speed up Arctic warming and cause 5. terrestrial permafrost to melt as well, resulting in even more emissions, 6. while the Jet Stream gets even more deformed, resulting in more extreme weather events 7. causing forest fires, at first in Siberia and Canada and 8. eventually also in the peat fields and tropical rain forests of the Amazon, in Africa and South-east Asia, resulting in 9. rapid melting on the Himalayas, temporarily causing huge flooding, 10. followed by drought, famine, heat waves and mass starvation, and 11. collapse of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Sam Carana _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
